Overcharge; Grocer Fined
[Per Press Association. Copyright] PALMERSTON N., This Day.
The first information under the Price Stabilisation Emergency Regulations were heard in the Magistrate’s Court, when two charges alleging breaches of the law were preferred against Harry Jackson, grocer. - Jackson w.as fined £1 and costs on one information, and was convicted and discharged on the other charge. It was stated that Jackson sold two half-pound packets of tea at a higher price than that permitted without the authority of the Minister for Industries and Commerce or the Price Tribunal. The prosecuting solicitor said a customer was charged 1/11 instead of 1/6. No permission had been granted for the increase in price, which, however, came some days later.
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Northern Advocate, 28 May 1940, Page 6
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